Class Schedule for
LIS 558Database Management Systems and Programming
Location
: Middlesex College 15a, Thursdays 1:30 - 4:20 p.m.Textbook: Kroenke, D. M. (1999). Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design & Implementation. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall. (2 copies on reserve at the FIMS library)
Class # |
Date (2000) |
Lecture topic |
Readings, Homework |
1 |
Jan 13 |
Introduction to LIS 558 |
Chapters 1, 2 |
2 |
Jan 20 |
Chapter 3, |
|
3 |
Jan 27 |
Chapter 3, |
|
4 |
Feb 3 |
Chapter 6, Transformation Exercises |
|
5 |
Feb 10 |
Chapter 5, Normalization Exercises |
|
6 |
Feb 17 |
Chapter 8 |
|
|
Feb 24 |
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|
7 |
Mar 2 |
Chapter 9, |
|
8 |
Mar 9 |
Chapter 10, Readings |
|
9 |
Mar 16 |
Introduction to Macro programming |
Novalis, Chapters 5,7* |
10 |
Mar 23 |
Managing Multi-user Databases - Lab demo |
Chapter 12 |
11 |
Mar 30 |
Text Retrieval Systems |
|
12 |
Apr 6 |
Student Project Presentations |
|
13 |
Apr 13 |
Student Project Presentations |
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* Novalis, S. (1997). Access 97 Macro & VBA Handbook. San Francisco: Sybex. (on Reserve at the FIMS library; Chapters 1-9 are worth reading)